Over the past two weeks, since the Israeli government’s decision to release 104 pre-Oslo Palestinian prisoners involved in murdering Israelis, the Palestinian Authority has been conducting a political and PR campaign focused on this issue. Palestinian ambassadors around the world were asked to relay letters to foreign ministries in the countries where they are serving,…
Eydie Gorme, who won Grammy Awards singing solo and with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died. Gorme died at a Las Vegas hospital on Saturday following a brief illness, according to a statement by her spokesman. She was 84. The statement said she was “surrounded by her husband, son and other loved ones at the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from hospital on Sunday hours after undergoing successful hernia surgery, but doctors said he would require several days’ rest to make a full recovery. During the overnight procedure, which took around an hour and required general anaesthetic, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon temporarily assumed the 63-year-old premier’s powers, Netanyahu’s…
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday Israel’s plans for new homes in Jewish settlements on occupied land were aimed to scupper peace talks that resume on Wednesday. Israel this week gave preliminary approval for 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, put on the market plots for 1,200 more and were…
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on distributors to boycott Lunardelli, an Italian wine company that sells wine labeled with Nazi and fascist slogans and and photos of the movements’ leaders. “Enough is enough,” Rabbis Marvin Hier, founder and dean, and Abraham Cooper, associate dean, of the Wiesenthal Center said in a statement released on…
A committee of Israeli government ministers is meeting to decide which Palestinian prisoners will be freed in the first round of peace talks. The first 26 prisoners, out of a list of 104, are set to be freed this week, a day before negotiations resume Wednesday in Jerusalem. Sunday’s meeting will take place without Prime…
Gen. Mark Welsh, the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, completed a secret visit to Israel. Welsh was in Israel Aug. 4 to Aug. 8 as the guest of the Commander of the Israel Air Force, Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel. During his visit, Welsh met with senior officers and defense personnel, including Chief of…
Israel said on Sunday it was marketing nearly 1,200 new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, just two days before a planned release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners. Israel has made a major push on settlements since the resumption on July 30, after a three-year break, of U.S.-brokered talks on Palestinian statehood. Israeli…
Mario Blejer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new candidate to become Bank of Israel governor, found himself in a media storm in 2008 after it emerged his wife had had an affair with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the International Monetary Fund. Blejer was a senior IMF official at the time, and his second wife Piroska…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a hernia operation, his office said late on Saturday, a procedure that appeared unlikely to disrupt plans to advance peace talks with the Palestinians next week. A statement said Netanyahu, 63, would be hospitalised overnight for the surgery after he complained of abdominal pain. The procedure was expected…
Israel has complained to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about statements by the Palestinians which it said undermined nascent peace talks, an Israeli official said on Saturday. “Incitement and peace cannot coexist,” the official quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as telling Kerry, the negotiations’ sponsor, in a letter sent over the weekend. The complaint…
פֿאַר סטודענטן זענען די ייִדישע אונטערקעפּלעך זייער ניצלעך ווײַל זיי העלפֿן בעסער פֿאַרשטיין וואָס די אינטערוויויִרטע זאָגן
